0.7.2.11:

[sbcl.git] / build-order.lisp-expr

diff --git a/build-order.lisp-expr b/build-order.lisp-expr
index e8b6315..8c77713 100644 (file)
--- a/build-order.lisp-expr
+++ b/build-order.lisp-expr
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@
  ;; leaking into target SBCL code.
  ("src/code/backq")
 
+ ;; It's difficult to be too early with a DECLAIM SPECIAL (or DEFVAR
+ ;; or whatever) thanks to the sullenly-do-the-wrong-thing semantics
+ ;; of CL special binding when the variable is undeclared.
+ ("src/code/globals" :not-host)
+
  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
  ;; various DEFSETFs and/or other DEFMACROish things, defined as early as
  ;; possible so we don't need to fiddle with any subtleties of defining them
@@ -75,7 +80,7 @@
 
  ("src/code/primordial-extensions")
 
- ;; for various constants e.g. SB!VM:*TARGET-MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM* and
+ ;; for various constants e.g. SB!XC:MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM and
  ;; SB!VM:N-LOWTAG-BITS, needed by "early-objdef" and others
  ("src/compiler/generic/early-vm")
  ("src/compiler/generic/early-objdef")
@@ -142,7 +147,6 @@
  ;;    and stuff."
  ;; Dunno exactly what this meant or whether it still holds. -- WHN 19990803
  ;; FIXME: more informative and up-to-date comment?
- ("src/code/globals"     :not-host)
  ("src/code/kernel"      :not-host)
  ("src/code/toplevel"    :not-host)
  ("src/code/cold-error"  :not-host)
@@ -511,7 +515,8 @@
  ("src/compiler/target/nlx")
  ("src/compiler/target/show")
  ("src/compiler/target/array"
-  ;; KLUDGE: Compiling this file raises alarming warnings of the form
+  ;; KLUDGE: Compiling this file for X86 raises alarming warnings of
+  ;; the form
   ;;    Argument FOO to VOP CHECK-BOUND has SC restriction
   ;;    DESCRIPTOR-REG which is not allowed by the operand type:
   ;;      (:OR POSITIVE-FIXNUM)
@@ -521,7 +526,8 @@
   ;; these warnings are severe enough that they would ordinarily abort
   ;; compilation, for now we blithely ignore them and press on to more
   ;; pressing problems. Someday, though, it would be nice to figure out
-  ;; what the problem is and fix it.. -- WHN 19990323
+  ;; what the problem is and fix it. (See the comments in
+  ;; src/compiler/x86/array for a candidate patch.) -- WHN 19990323
   :ignore-failure-p)
  ("src/compiler/target/pred")
  ("src/compiler/target/type-vops")
@@ -574,7 +580,7 @@
                                                 ;   "compiler/generic/core"
 
  ("src/code/eval"              :not-host) ; uses INFO, wants compiler macro
- ("src/code/target-sap"        :not-host) ; uses SAP-INT-TYPE
+ ("src/code/target-sap"        :not-host) ; uses SAP-INT type
  ("src/code/target-package"    :not-host) ; needs "code/package"
  ("src/code/target-random"     :not-host) ; needs "code/random"
  ("src/code/target-hash-table" :not-host) ; needs "code/hash-table"